Junk Charts:
Andrew Gelman has put up a great post, discussing how he collaborated with the New York Times editors to transform his chart to a publishable form. Some time ago, there was a discussion here about the publish-worthiness of m (Read More)
New York Times:
Since 1998, the dollar’s weakness has been a major contributor to the United States stock market’s fall from global grace.
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Junk Charts:
In an article called "Off the Charts", Floyd Norris wanted to let readers know that unemployment does not hit citizens equally -- it affects some age groups and men/women to differing degrees. As befits the article's title, (Read More)
New York Times:
The Chargers finally got into a rhythm with their running game in Sunday's 31-23 win over the Philadelphia Eagles. Tomlinson had a season-high 96 yards to ...
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New York Times:
Short-term unemployment is edging down, but the proportion of workers without jobs for an extended period is higher now than it has been since the Great Depression. (Read More)
New York Times:
Short-term unemployment is edging down, but the proportion of workers without jobs for an extended period is higher now than it has been since the Great Depression.
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Mashable!:
For better or worse, iTunes and the iTunes Store have become a ubiquitous part of the digital media experience. In fact, it’s such a common part of the experience that Apple just expects that everyone has it installed.Consequ (Read More)
Mashable!:
Any news organization’s web site can get a story picked up by popular sites such as Drudge Report, Huffington Post, Digg, or even Fark, resulting in a bump in page views. But that’s a traffic anomaly. A key metric media compa (Read More)
Mashable!:
The film “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” continues to take over MySpace. Last month, the first “New Moon” trailer premiered on MySpace, and the social site also served as home base for the “New Moon” soundtrack. On November 16 (Read More)
mashable:
Unlike YouTube, Hulu doesn’t show you the number of times a given video has been viewed. Although the site does have a “Most Popular” section, Hulu recently started offering a bit more insight into viewing trends by distribu (Read More)
Mashable!:
Since its debut, Shazam, the music discovery tool, has remained one of the most popular applications in Apple’s App Store. The immensely popular app is also available on many other mobile devices, and in June surpassed more t (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Shazam, the music discovery iPhone application which gained widespread adoption thanks to its appearance in an iPhone TV commercial, is now getting a ton of new features thanks to the launch of a premium application called Sh (Read More)
Mashable!:
Wanna make a hit song? The ’standard’ way of doing it is learning to play an instrument, finding a couple more musicians, practice, create some songs, find a publisher……or you can scrap all that and let the YouTube community (Read More)
Mashable!:
Last week we reported on Google’s new music discovery features. The Google music search endeavor is partnership between Google, MySpace, Lala, and several others to make music search and discovery a primary feature of the Goo (Read More)
New York Times:
A factor causing sluggishness may be that auto companies produced and, with discounts, sold too many cars in the years before the recession.
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Mashable!:
Apple has officially reported what we figured out last week: the App Store now has over 100,000 apps. Keep in mind that the App Store didn’t even exist until July of 2008. So that’s 100,000 apps in about fifteen months.When y (Read More)
BBC News Player | World:
Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is doing well in the country's music charts with a collection of songs he recorded more than 20 years ago. (Read More)
mashable:
Greetings, music fans! It’s another Free Music Monday for your listening pleasure. If you’ve been with us for past episodes, you’ll know we’re celebrating the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter.We pick 10 tracks, albums or pla (Read More)